Today's Homework

• Daily Maths A
• Homework workbook p.23 & 24
  

Today's Homework

• Daily Maths C
• Prepare a 10 second talk about your happiest memories of Year 4 and/or your hopes for Year 5. You will be videoed so try not to come to school with your breakfast spilled down your shirt.
  

Mystery Object

The question last week was, 'Which famous fashion designer died recently?'

The answer was Yves Saint Laurent (YSL), who was most famous for designing the trouser suit for women at a time when women were never seen in trousers.

If you think about how often we see women and girls in trousers now, you can imagine how much fashion has changed since his invention.

The correct answers were provided by Thea, Mohammad, Rayan and Ahmed, in that order.

Today's Homework

• Daily Maths B
• Abacus Number 2 workbook p.80-81
• Learn your spellings (It's back!)
  
• On Tuesday I would like to video you talking a little about what you are looking forward to in Y5, what your happiest memory of Y4 was and things like that. It need only be 10 seconds or so. Try to have some idea of what you are going to say before then.
  

Extra Games

Of course, everything we do in Y4-5 is hard work, non-stop from morning till night but every once in a while I might tell the children about a game that I have enjoyed. I would never actually let them play the game themselves, oh no. So here are the games that I was telling you about today.

This is the Treasure Island game. You can find it again in the Explorers section.

This is a Dinosaur Dig game. You can find it again in the Maths section.

Today's Homework

• Daily Maths A
• Abacus SDM workbook p.124? I can't remember the page now! It's the one about co-ordinates.
• All the people who didn't do their artist homework or colour factfile homework need to give it in tomorrow. You know who you are.
  

Today's Homework

• Daily Maths D
• Make a colour fact file - cut out and stick your colour wheel in the centre of the paper you took today. Around the outside write what you know about colour. Here are some ideas you can think about: what are the primary and secondary colours; what colours go well together; what words do you know to describe colour; what colours can you make from light; how do you make colours? You can always think of your own ideas as well. Remember, this is a poster about colour so make it as colourful as possible.
  

Today's Homework

• Daily Maths C - NOT A!!!!!!
• 100 square times table
• Abacus Shape, Data & Measure workbook p.126 - Venn Diagrams
  

Mystery Object

This is a painting by Gustav Klimt, from Baumgarten, Austria. It is called 'Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer I'. It is oil, silver and gold on canvas. It was painted in 1907 and was sold in New York in 2006 for $135 million, making it the most expensive painting in the world.

We had a few entries: Mohammad, Rayan, Thea and Ahmed. All answered the three parts of the question but Mohammad was first so well done to all!

Today's Homework

• Daily Maths C
• Choose an artist from this list: Jackson Pollock, Piet Mondrian, Claude Monet, Gustav Klimt, Pablo Picasso, J.M.W. Turner, Georgia O'Keefe, Rennie Mackintosh. Research her/his style. Did their style change? Did the style have a name? Why did they paint like that? Can you find a painting to show what you are talking about? On Saturday we will see and hear presentations from people about their chosen artist.
  

Today's Homework

• Daily Maths E
• Abacus SDM workbook p.110-111
• Bring a white t-shirt to school by Saturday please. It can be a white, sleeved vest if you prefer. We are going to design and make our own t-shirts and white will be the best colour to add patterns and colours to.
  

Mystery Object

This is a painting by Roy Lichtenstein in the 'Pop Art' style. Congratulations to Mohammad again, for being the first with the answer. Ahmed was second although he didn't seem to know how he got the answer. Oh well.

Today's Homework

1. Daily Maths 1
2. Finish your complementary colours picture
3. Finish the first 2 paragraphs of the time machine story. The first paragraph should be about you; who are you, where are you, what are you doing, where do you get the time machine from, why did you get the time machine etc. The second paragraph is about how you get the time machine to work; what did you hear, see, feel, do etc. Don't write anything about the future though.
   

Colour Wheel

If you are trying to finish your colour wheel at home and you're not sure what it should look like, this might help.

Today's Homework

• Daily Maths 3
• Make a poster of clothes - 1 man and 1 woman. You can use pictures of your country's national dress or any clothes you want. When you have stuck (or drawn) the clothes on the poster, write the names of the clothes in another language, not English! You can give this in on Saturday as you are going to make such a good job of it. Look in magazines or advertisements or maybe on the internet for pictures.
  

Today's Homework

• Daily Maths 2
• Finish 1 colour poem (If you've already done it you don't HAVE to do another but you can if you want to)
• Letts p.83 Finish the Text and Sentence boxes
  

Here are a couple of examples if you're not sure how to do your colour poem:

Red
Red is the colour of Santa's hat.
Red feels like a hot fire in someones house.
Red smells like sweet apple juice.
Red sounds like a person crunching an apple.
Red tastes like strawberries.
Red looks like red sunburn on my face and arms.
Red makes me feel happy and good.

Blue
Blue is the colour of our school uniform.
Blue tastes like cold blueberries.
Blue smells bad like my shoes.
Blue sound like a car and the rain falling.
Blue feels like a smooth blue paper.
Blue looks like a rubbish bin at the school.
Blue makes me happy and feel loved.

Fashion Parade

Don't forget! Tomorrow is the day when you should wear your own clothes and bring a piece of your favourite music in. You can wear anything you like (within the bounds of taste and decency) but try to choose something interesting that might be a bit different to other people.

The same goes for the music. Any language, any style, any age. Just make sure it is suitable for us to listen to (no bad words) and try to bring it on a cd. Cassette or memory stick is also ok.

See you tomorrow!

Mr Ward's Fantastic Music

I know you all loved the music that we heard this afternoon. I couldn't guess who had picked some of the songs so well done to everyone who did, especially the people who worked out when I was trying to trick them.

If you want to hear my tune again, here it is, including the video!

Today's Homework

• Daily Maths 1
• Abacus SDM workbook p.102 & p.103
  

New Unit

We're about to embark on a new unit of study. The next unit is called 'Fashion' and there will be lots of work to do with art, music and design in it. We'll be finding out more about it next week but if anyone has any old clothes or bits of old material that they no longer want, please send them in as we will be designing and making jackets at some point.

Don't forget to start thinking about what to wear for the fashion parade and what music you want to share with the rest of the class.